Joseph is an ICU nurse from Pakistan who began his career with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the wake of that country’s 2005 earthquake. He’s now the nursing activity manager at MSF’s clinic in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan. For International Nurses Day, Joseph explains the importance of nursing.

Philomena is a Nigerian nurse working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to treat malnourished children in southern Maiduguri, Nigeria. For International Nurses Day, she describes why she loves being a nurse.

The old town area of Mosul, in Iraq, experienced intense shelling, aerial bombing, and attacks with explosive devices during the most recent violence. Though much of the area is still in ruins, thousands of people have returned to their homes. MSF has responded by distributing 550 hygiene kits with items including soap, toothbrushes, shampoo, and water containers.

Reignited violence has pushed hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). MSF is working to meet the health needs at several locations where displaced people are sheltering.

Khumbulani, 16, has multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). In 2017, he lost his hearing. In early 2018, his eyesight faded. The side effects were not from the disease, but from Khumbulani's treatment. Better drugs for resistant strains of TB exist, but too few people have access to them. It's time to #StepUpForTB

After having their first application for asylum rejected, a Syrian family living in a refugee camp on Samos Island, Greece, awaits the results of their second application. "I'm scared that if we go back to Turkey, we’ll be deported to Syria," the mother says, "and my child will never see his father again."

Wherever Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) meets displaced women and girls, some will be carrying pregnancies due to rape. Testimonies of rape and other forms of sexual violence are common in the dedicated “women’s shelter” on the MV Aquarius, a search and rescue ship operated by SOS Méditerranée with medical support from MSF.